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Topic: Starting a new Skin (Read 1957 times)

I want to start making/editing skins, for starters (and for learning) i want to keep it simple and just make new graphics files for a existing skin like discribed in this wiki: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Create_my_own_skins_or_GUI_for_LinuxMCEBut i don't want to mess up any existing skins so i want to copy a skin and start from there.For example:take /usr/pluto/orbiter/skins/Basic directory and copy and rename it to /usr/pluto/orbiter/skins/BasicNew wich i can alter.

could someone please explain in detail how to make such a copy of a existing skin (i don't want to mess-up the system)and how to get acces (read/write) to this directory from a laptop inside the internal lan.

thanks,br,

Raymond

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thanks for your reply, yes i did but i don't seem to recall that it did answer my questions.i am fairly a newbie to linux and am very careful not to mess things up, thats why i ask in such detail (willing to learn a lot)

br,Raymond

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If you can access your "home" folder from the network, than you can create a symbolic link to your skins directory.And the screencasts are a good place to start. I went over them more than once before I got the hang of it.

Hi Karel, thanks for your reply,Sadly i do not have acces to my home folder, how do i get permission?But if i make a symbolic link, if i understand correctly, i still have to copy 1 of the current skins to work off, thats my intention anyway.Is this discribed in the screencasts? Did i missed that, i looked at them? Or maybe you can explain?Thanks,Br,Raymond

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When you've created the symbolic link to your skins dir, you can then copy an existing skin to another dir for you to play with.You can then just copy and paste or change the graphics in the /home/skins/newskin/ folder from the laptop.

ok so now i did cd /home/skins/and then gave command sudo ln -sf /usr/pluto/orbiter/skins/ and now i can see skins/skins/Basic there is only 1 extra skin folder, don't know why maybe someone could explain, i want to learn

thanks allbr,Raymond

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